Secure the Digital Economy
Secure American leadership of the digital economy, consumer privacy, and cyber engagement
- Problem: The 21st century economy encapsulates an entire world of technology unimaginable in the 20th century, but Congress has only just begun the work of updating the laws to reflect those changes. Artificial Intelligence and a growing digital economy are part of an evolving landscape that is putting new challenges on the map, from privacy and transparency online to cyber security and digital trade.
- Solution: The U.S. should set the rules for the digital economy, enshrining American values of innovation, transparency, and individual privacy. The NDC believes Congress should:
- More on those bills and the NDC’s Safeguarding Our Economy and Our Future.
- Modernize its international trade agreements to reflect the 21st century economy and entrench American values of freedom, privacy, and competition in the digital world
- Enact a pro-consumer, pro-innovation national information, data, and privacy standard, and establish transparency requirements
- Invest in cybersecurity capabilities, standards, resilience, and response for critical infrastructure, the private sector, local governments, and more
- Engage with its global counterparts to develop rules of cyber engagement and define acceptable practices, as well as those that constitute an act of war or aggression